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Logistic regression with covariate measurement error in an adaptive design : a Bayesian approach.
(2008-10-14)
Adaptive designs are increasingly popular in clinical trials. This is because such designs have the potential to decrease patient exposure to treatments that are
less efficacious or unsafe. The Bayesian approach to ...
Solidarity, compassion, truth: the pacifist witness of Dorothy Day.
(2006-10-13)
The truth of the gospel requires witnesses, and the pacifist witness of Dorothy Day embodies the peaceable character of a church that, in the words of Stanley Hauerwas, "is not some ideal but an undeniable reality." In ...
Modification of fresh tissue surfaces; synthesis of labeled L-dopa analogs; and synthesis of metoclopramide analogs.
(2006-05-27)
One of the main goals of the primary project was to develop methods to site specifically immobilize functional proteins on a tissue surface. There are many examples of proteins that have been chemically modified and ...
Charles Dickens’s Bleak house: Benthamite jurisprudence and the law, or what the law is and what the law ought to be.
(2008-06-09)
Dickens’s foggy world of the nineteenth-century Chancery Court is famous, and infamous, for keeping its litigants in a constant and never-ending state of legal confusion, costs, and “conglomeration” (Bleak House 1873 I: ...
Hispanic assimilation: are we there yet?
(2008-06-10)
Hispanics made up 15% of the population in 2005 and the Census predicts that 25% of this country’s population will be Hispanic by 2050 (Sullivan, 2007). 70% of the nation’s growth during the last decade has been immigrants, ...
Through the lens of the land: changing identity in the novels of Bernard MacLaverty.
(2008-11-10)
Many critics, like Oona Frawley, believe the land of Ireland has the unique power to connect the collective Irish conscience to the past and is often a rallying cry to garner support for the freedom of Ireland. MacLaverty ...
Ontology, exegesis, and culture in the thought of Henri de Lubac.
(2006-07-24)
This dissertation examines the continuity between Henri de Lubac's retrieval of patristic and medieval exegesis and his treatment of the ontological relationship between nature and grace. I argue that, for de Lubac, the ...
Collecting Greek and Roman antiquities : remarkable individuals and acquisitions in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
(2008-12-15)
The United States of America is distant both geographically and chronologically from the classical culture of the Greek and Roman civilizations. For these reasons, classical antiquities were not widely available to the ...
Electrical resistivity imaging for characterizing dynamic hydrologic systems.
(2008-10-01)
Electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) is widely used in hydrogeophysical studies for monitoring spatiotemporal variations in hydrologic properties and processes. Its applications to hydrologic settings found in sandy and ...
Modeling channel erosion in cohesive streams of the Blackland Prairie, Texas at the watershed scale.
(2008-10-02)
Stream bank erosion is a product of submerged and subaerial processes. The goal
of this research was to assess the application of the submerged jet test to predict erosion of cohesive stream banks in the Blackland Prairie ...